3.1.3.2 Creating New Application Users

After you log in to the IAM console, the first task is to create additional user accounts.

You should assign specific user groups to the user accounts that you are creating. There are seeded user groups available with the respective services, users must be mapped to one or more of the user groups, depending on the role that they perform.

For example, you can create a user for each member of your team. Each member can then sign into the account with their credentials. You can also assign each user to specific user groups and apply specific security policies or roles to each group.

You can create the users and map the users to groups for your service. After creating the users, the users will receive a Welcome email. The users must activate their accounts and enter a new password to access the services.

To create users in the IAM Console:

1. In the IAM Console, select Domains (Identity domain) to view the list existing domains.
2. Click the required Domain Name, to access the Domain Details page.
3. In the left pane, click Users and select Create user, to proceed with the user creation.
4. Enter the following details:
   • First Name, Last Name and a valid Username and the Email ID.

     Note:

     • The username should be alphanumeric and cannot exceed 20 characters. You can enter only hyphen (-) and underscore (_) as special characters.
     • Uncheck the Use the email address as the username check box, as you can only set the username as the login ID and currently setting the email address as the login ID is not supported.
5. Select the user groups according to your user-specific groups or access, in the Groups (Optional).

   Note:

   After a user logs in to a specific cloud service, the user to user-group mapping created in the IAM Console will onboard into the master and mapping tables. Later, if you deselect (remove) a user from a group in Assign User to Groups after provisioning, ensure that you also unmap the user from the corresponding user-group in the Admin Console. This is a mandatory step to complete the unmapping process.
6. After entering the required information, click Create to create and add the new user to the User Summary.

You can also batch import several users using a .CSV file.